Everyone in India faces social stigma when it comes to mental health issues. However, women face a lot more of it due to patriarchal norms, social conditioning, and misogyny built into in the system. Lesbian, trans, and queer women specifically may have to deal with oppression arising from genderism, heteronormativity, and transphobia. Let’s look at […]
October 5th 2019
“Post and during the transition, I have definitely faced much discrimination and bigotry in the academic world,” says A. Mani, a mathematician
October 3rd 2019
Two neuroscientists and a sociologist reflect on mental health experiences of people in science. What is it about the environment in STEM labs that might increase the risk for anxiety and depression?
October 2nd 2019
At the first of its kind scientific conference, Indian physicists start to agree that something must be done about the gender gap
October 1st 2019
From my two years of being in academia, I’ve come to understand that this insecurity has a name, ‘imposter syndrome’, and it does not stop or get any better along the journey.
September 28th 2019
At the backdrop of the 2019 Kodagu floods, Switzerland-based agroforestry researcher Maike Nesper, talks about working with small coffee farmers to find sustainable ways of growing coffee.
September 18th 2019
Sharing snippets of a special project by TLoS to highlight the work by public health researchers at THSTI, Faridabad.
September 10th 2019
A tour through an open science laboratory in Switzerland where scientists are realising the hacker culture
August 28th 2019
Lab technicians might be appreciated in the scientific community but rarely do we stop and listen to their stories. Cyrus Khan speaks to KV Boby, a technician at TIFR Bombay.
August 20th 2019
Sharing snippets of a special project by TLoS to highlight the work by public health researchers at THSTI, Faridabad.
August 13th 2019